Insomniac Games Announce Resistance 3 Public PS3 Beta Dates

Today Senior Community Manager James Stevenson at Insomniac Games has announced the Resistance 3 public PS3 Beta dates, with early access beginning on August 4, 2011.

To quote: Many of you have been getting very excited about the chance to play Resistance 3&prime;s competitive multiplayer modes online when the Resistance 3 Public Beta launches.

Today, we're happy to give some additional info about the launch dates for the beta.

For those of you who have received Early Access to the Public Beta via specially marked packages of SOCOM 4, we will be opening the beta to you at some point on Thursday, August 4th.

Your existing codes will be able to be redeemed via the PlayStation Store and the Redeem Code button. PlayStation Plus subscribers in the U.S. will also be invited to join the beta beginning on August 23rd. If you're a subscriber, all you'll have to do is navigate to the PlayStation Plus section of the PlayStation Store to download the beta.

The Resistance 3 Beta includes two of our major maps in the game, the Seaside of Glamorgan, Wales, as well as a Trainyard in Bogota, Colombia. The Public Beta includes two of our five multiplayer modes, Team Deathmatch and Chain Reaction (the other three are Deathmatch, Breach, and Capture the Flag).

You can level your character up, buy and upgrade weapons and abilities, customize your loadouts and unlock new character skins. We have capped the level in the beta at 20, so you won't be able to get the full range of abilities, modes, maps, and weapons until the game launches in September, but we hope you enjoy this taste of the experience while helping us test our online infrastructure.

The beta will continue beyond the Early Access period, and we'll be announcing additional ways to get in as we get closer to Resistance 3&prime;s launch date. Can't wait for Early Access? Some of our media partners will be giving out codes next week that will let you join the beta a couple of days early.

We'll also be giving out some early codes on our Twitter and Facebook account, so follow or Like us!

That's all for now! We look forward to playing against you in the Resistance 3 Multiplayer Beta next week.

why only playstation plus users from u.s. if that's the case i'll be angry as funk.. i just paid for a year of plus yesterday.. 69.95 aussie.. sony always seems to pander to the yanks. forget the rest. we just don't matter? LOL idiots!!

Many of you have been getting very excited about the chance to play Resistance 3‘s competitive multiplayer modes online when the R3 Public Beta launches. Today, we’re happy to give some additional info about the launch dates for the beta.

First and foremost, across Europe, we will be giving priority access to PlayStation Plus subscribers. We plan to open the doors on August 10th – so please visit the PS Store and check out the PS Plus section then if you are a subscriber.

If you don’t subscribe to PS Plus, there will be further opportunities to get into the Beta after this date – so watch this space for more information.

The Resistance 3 Beta includes two of our major maps in the game, the Seaside of Glamorgan, Wales, as well as a Trainyard in Bogota, Colombia. It also contains two of our five modes, Team Deathmatch and Chain Reaction (the other three are Deathmatch, Breach, and Capture the Flag).

You can level your character up, buy and upgrade weapons and abilities, customise your loadouts and unlock new skins. We have capped the level in the beta at 20, so you won’t be able to get the full range of abilities, modes, maps, and weapons until the game launches in September, but we hope you enjoy this taste of the experience while helping us test our online infrastructure.